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context on soul eater for those who havent seen it: some people can turn into a weapon. they get paired off with meisters (ppl who wield the weapons) based on soul compatibility. if two people are incompatible or out of sync, theyre unable to fight together - their bodies will physically reject it and they can even get injured by trying. so weapon/meister duos are always very deep and trusting (and often ambiguously romantic) relationships. and then they fight monsters or whatever the rest isnt important
im starting with blood gulch, as usual. although..... freelancer has interesting implications...... okay but reds and blues first
grif and simmons - grif is the weapon (maybe a rocket launcher?) because you know his ass is not running around fighting. this works great with simmons' need for control. 10/10 no notes
church and tucker - i think church would naturally be the weapon here but im thinking about how this applies to tucker and wash down the line..... i kinda had it in my head that the freelancers would be meisters and the ais their weapons, which would make weapon!tucker pair well with meister!wash after church dies, but if i disregard that. weapon!wash could be really really interesting.... i dont really have a plot in mind so i also dont know how epsilon fits into this but hes also here. idk ill think about it. anyway obvious weapon choices for this duo would be a sword or a sniper rifle. (i do think its really funny to make tucker the sniper rifle that church cant aim for shit. oh you wanted the sniper rifle so bad? now you are one and your meister gets no kills with it <3)
sarge and lopez - this one has hilarious implications. is lopez still a robot? is he just a regular ass shotgun that sarge built and insists on using instead of pairing with a person? is he a robot that can turn into a weapon? does he still speak spanish? if he is a robot, does he have a soul???? do he and sarge resonate the way weapon/meister duos usually do???? honestly this is hilarious no matter what, but im leaning toward hes a humanoid robot that can turn into a shotgun. sarge built him and lopez hates him for it but he was programmed to be compatible so they resonate just fine. dont think about the implications of a robot having a soul okay shhhhh its fine
if robots are on the table then you know we gotta do caboose and sheila - is sheila also a robot? i think it works either way. shes definitely the weapon though - something with a lot of firepower. truly i think shes the only one who can balance out caboose in a combat setting and even then they still get church killed. incredible
donut and doc - this one is interesting with doc being canonically a pacifist. maybe hes still primarily a medic but he keeps a weapon on him just in case? and then omalley makes good use of it >:D donuts really just along for the ride. i dont have specific weapon ideas - i know doc tends to favour the rocket launcher and donut is good with grenades, but also. insert joke about crossing swords. anyway no matter what weapon he is, donuts weapon form is pink
(also i want you guys to know that i almost did pastrytrain as a duo and left doc out for the crimes of being a pacifist. i still think it could work, but donut and caboose dont really interact that much compared to caboose and sheila, and also i wanted to keep the teams separate. you understand)
tex and kai - honestly this is a GREAT duo imo. i know the only time they interact in canon is some catty bullshit but its not their fault they were written by misogynists, and honestly they have some really good black star/tsubaki duality going for them. i think tex would be the meister, and kai would be maybe a melee weapon? oooh could do both of the grif siblings as knives..... knife simmons...... anyway tex and kai really good duo. easily the best out of all the blood gulch crew
and then the freelancers would be...... actually remarkably similar to how the freelancer/ai relationships work in canon! although if you swap around whos weapon and meister (as opposed to the ais all being weapons) you could certainly shake things up. also kind of interesting bc theres a lot of partner swapping in freelancer, which doesnt seem to happen much in soul eater. a testament to the poor conditions at pfl perhaps......
anyway i dont really have ideas for a full-fledged au, but its certainly fun to play with - the soul eater designs are already fun and then bringing in the rvb colour coding...... giving them fun dramatic weapon designs...... plus the whole soul resonance thing adds a layer to the relationships that i think would make for some delicious character interactions. force these mfs to communicate with each other lmfao
I mean, while I have seen some people say that the ending of Pantheon was kind of out of no where, I kinda think that it fits within the themes of the show?
Huge Spoilers
So after a 20 year timeskip, Maddie Kim (show dual protagonist) is given a message via the dying robot served head of her boyfriend that 200,000 years in the future both he and her will be together again...
Leading to Maddie, after getting uploaded into a digital form an undefined amount of time later, spends the next 200,000 years (relative, digital people can perceive time faster or slower than regular humans, but outside it was over two hundred thousand years) deconstructing the entire solar system to turn into an enormous network of computers powered by almost all of the energy output of the Sun.
With this digital network (aided by the discovery of quantum memory encoded onto DNA, which okay, works for the story) Maddie builds millions of virtual worlds with digital copies of herself, her boyfriend etc. etc. in order to recreate the world of her past (albeit with some slight nudges to get a better result) so she could ask Caspian what he was talking about (also save the life of their son etc.).
She does this, enters the world and possesses her past-copy of herself and uses her literal god-like powers to save Caspian and their kid, and demands to know what the heck Caspian was talking about with his message.
Turns out that it wasn't him, and that Maddie herself was a simulation of the original Maddie created millions of years in the future by the descendants of an AI Caspian had fired off into space in the distant past. The simulation created so that they could thank Maddie and Caspian for showing them compassion and the chance to play it forward with other forms of life they discovered rather than, y'know, killing them.
So after Caspian thanks them for their gratitude (with prodding from Maddie to not be rude to cyber-gods), the pair wish they could go back to when things are more simple, with no knowledge of all the horrors that came later. So they elect to travel to one of Maddie's digital worlds and effectively start the cycle again from the beginning with no memories, so they can meet each other and fall in love all over again...
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So yeah, what I'm basically saying is that the major theme of the show is whether the digitally uploaded people are effectively the people themselves of a simulation... Only for it to turn out that the characters we've been watching were all simulations of the original people (not just a simulation, but potentially millions of simulations deep created by both versions of Maddie and the cybergods), which effectively answers the show's question for itself.
Yes, even if they are a simulation, they're still people. Painfully so, and even if the oddly distant position Maddie has found herself in (giving herself a kind of medium awareness, as she knows that she might be a simulation created by a version of herself, which the show inteprets as her addressing the audience), they're no less the people they were when they were "alive". And I think that's neat.
Okay I'm on more of my Scavengers Reign bullshit. Let's talk about Fiona, specifically the vision!Fiona that the Hollow uses to communicate with Kamen, and the thoughtful detail the show puts in her evolution from episode to episode, and her eyes in particular.
At the very beginning when Kamen first encounters the Hollow, she is hazy, pulled from real memories, and then very simply adapted into a scene. I get the impression that the simple feel-good/motivation vibe is what happens for the simpler creatures the Hollow is usually manipulating in a symbiotic survival relationship. Notably, her eyes are visible through her glasses. The tone is warm.
Next, Fiona is clear, in full color, and conveying more complex ideas while appearing in the real environment. She gives directions but is still friendly.
But then we start to get shots where light reflects on her glasses and just partially obscures her eyes:
Periodically we see a variety of real memories where Fiona is herself (albeit memories selected by the Hollow to convey certain ideas), but the evolution of the conjured Fiona has a trajectory. As the mutual corruption continues between Kamen and the Hollow, with the "hallucination" version of Fiona we see her eyes less and less.
As she gradually becomes less recognizably Fiona and more Other, an arbiter of the Hollow's desires and a refraction of Kamen's own guilt and self-hatred, her glasses are always opaque with reflection. After all, it's not Fiona looking at Kamen, it's (partly) Kamen looking at himself. And a well-earned dose of anime glasses drama, of course.
By the end, her affect is cold, and we don't see her eyes through her glasses at all, even from an angle.
Her message, too, is pointed: "Your brain is poison. You've always known that. Remember?"
But underneath the cruelty is something I think the real Fiona and Kamen agree on: "It's time for you to come out of hiding and accept that. Look at yourself."
Kamen can't keep hiding in the Hollow, hiding from his guilt and pain and utter despair. He has to face it. And he tumbles out into space in his vision, hurtling towards the planet and Consequences. And out in the real world, we see a symbol of that illusion finally breaking in the real Fiona's glasses, emphasizing the reality of her death:
The Hollow continues his rampage - there is too much momentum to their feedback loop now to just stop without outside help - but Kamen at least is no longer deceiving himself.
I’m feeling happy about these!! They’re all gifts for Christmas (including the shelf, which still needs lots more work). The sylveon pin is my favorite :)
I’m still feeling a little apprehensive posting to tumblr because of how disorganized my blog can get + not being used to the site’s posting etiquette. Sorry for no rvb art (or activity in general) lately, probably won’t post much more till January!
thinking about the drawing I made of Donut in 2015 to celebrate on the day same-sex marriage was legalized in the US, because of all the celebratory things I could have written, I chose an incredibly literal "Gay marriage is legal <3" in huge letters right next to the noodliest, most boring Donut I've ever seen. a long ominous shadow extending far into the plain white background combined with flat colors and zero shading really sells it too
